How to hack into my space

Scott Helme, a security researcher who acted as one of the guinea pigs to test the flaw, said that Myspace's account recovery feature is "insane. If you don't want strangers taking control of your old Myspace account and going through your embarrassing high school pictures, you can recover control of it here and follow this procedure to delete the account.

The original URL now redirects to a different page. And if people want to recover old accounts, without the associated email address, have to fill out a different form. Also, Myspace Told Wired in a statement: "In response to some recent concerns raised regarding Myspace user account reactivation, we have enhanced our process by adding an additional verification step to avoid improper access. We take data security very seriously at Myspace. We plan to continue to refine and improve this process over time.

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This may not be surprising to all the folks who have abandoned Myspace already, but it still matters, Galloway says. Last year, hundreds of millions of Myspace passwords dating back to before June were set loose online, unleashing an avalanche of jokes about it not being anymore.

At that time, Myspace said it had invalidated all user passwords for affected accounts on the old platform and would be beefing up security for passwords. Join Date Apr Posts Join Date Mar Posts Join Date Apr Posts 3. G'Day 2U I was up late Join Date Sep Posts 2, Originally Posted by mogotecoyote. I was up late Join Date Apr Posts 1. Why would you want to hack Myspace, just try to get the IP of the person and hack them..

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